This bright blue backside belongs to the Subaru BRZ, Subie's variant of the Scion FR-S — or…
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One thing to note: The sheetmetal for the production Subaru BRZ (which will be revealed at the Tokyo Motor Show later this month) won't look exactly like this — apparently Subaru has replaced every piece of bodywork for show-car dazzle purposes.

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Still, there's every reason to believe that both the Toyobaru and Subieyota versions of this 2,600-pound, boxer-engined sports coupe will be everything we've been hoping for. A car that, like the Mazda Miata, is a purpose-built handler — a pure sports car uncompromised by it having to share a chassis with mom's own hauler of garden-sale begonias.

We're imagining a car with a holistically designed engine and chassis combination, requiring little in the way of out-the-door triage tuning to make it a one-G-machine on the skidpad. A car whose wheels and tires are sized and chosen for turn-in, not head-turns.

A car that, although likely leaving the factory with some prophylactic understeer dialed in, will have exactly as much power as the underpinnings can handle, and not a single horsepower more. Within reason, of course.

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If it seems like we've invested our hopes and dreams in the BRZ and its Scion FR-S counterpart, it's because we have. A $25,000 car whose performance benchmark is the Porsche Cayman? Yes, please.